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that the Police Force shall be entitled to claim from this Government order at exchange of the day for whatsoever portions of their pay they may desire to have stopped for remittance.
3.
The only difficulty in the matter is the trouble which will be entailed on the Crown Agents by many orders to the payment of many Police and the Public officers generally, and I would submit, therefore, whether it would not be expedient rather than troubling these Gentlemen to issue Bank orders here to Applicants for home remittances at exchange of the day, the rate being taken at the close of the year for the loss caused from time to time by the fluctuating exchanges.
4.
We already adopt this system in Postal and other Treasury remittances which, although provided for at 1/2, are paid at current exchange, and it appears to me to be the simplest and most feasible plan which can be adopted of enabling Public Servants generally to provide for the maintenance of their families at home, for family remittances, and for other personal purposes without ruinous losses in cases such as that of Mr. Pane.
In some few cases such as...